_A meeting of the citizens of Dacca was held in the spacious room of
the Bar Library on the 11th October 1917, Babu Ananda Chandra Ray,
Dacca, presided, when Mr. C. R. Das spoke as follows_:--
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen,--I thank you very much for calling upon
me to address you to-night on the question, which of all questions
is agitating the mind of all of our countrymen to-day. Whatever the
Anglo-Indians may say, I believe, I am speaking the truth when I say
that there is hardly an educated man in the country who is not to-day
thinking of self-Government. And I say further that every educated
man in this country has a right to think of Self-Government. If you
consider the history of the public events for the last five years,
you cannot but come to the conclusion that the time has come when the
educated community of this country, taking such assistance from their
uneducated brethren as they can, must think out clearly and rationally
as to what form of Self-Government they might expect and they insist
upon.